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Dav Wed Dec 21 2005 at 7:49 pm
Re: wow
It does seem to scale some images down - but only sometimes. I've been trying to figure out when it decides to do so. Pocket IE appears to give 1st prioity to text placement, then images are handled in a way not to mess with the text placement, sometimes squishing them.
(And I should have wrote 240x320 instead - 240 pixels across - 320 down)
Pocket IE (for windows mobile 5) has several viewing modes.
In 'Desktop' mode, the page is rendered exactly the same as if on a desktop screen. Then you have do a lot of left-right scrolling to read all the page. Looks perfect, but it's hard to read down a 800x600 page smoothly using a 240x320 window.
In 'Default' mode it looks like IE renders a page in a '2 column' view - that requires only some left-right scrolling to read down a page. Some images are resized. Most pages actualy look quite good in this mode - probably why it's the default.
In 'Column' mode, IE tries to render a page in a way that all text on a page fits easily in a 1 column view for easy reading. The only scrolling needed is down. No left-right because it's all in one column - text is word wraped. This works great for information pages - but graphics a handled in a word-wrapping kind of way too, which looks laughable sometimes.
There's a 'FullScreen' option too, which removes the tiop & lower info bars - helps a little - gaining may 20 pixels each way.
Now - then there's 'Landscape' mode for the PocketPc screen. Whech makes everything a little bit better. That's when it's 320x240 - more capatible and better viewing.
I think in the not to distant future, most professional sites will have a 'pda' version of their sites (like http://www.google.com/pda/ ). Mobile internet phones & pda's usage is increasing rapidly every year. Sites will have to be more mobile friendly.
I will find and use a screen cap program to get you some screenies - looking for one now. Had one for my older ipaq, but this new one (using windows mobile v5) won't install that one.
- Dav
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